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Calvino's masterpiece opens with a scene that's reassuringly commonplace: apparently. Indeed, it's taking place now. A reader goes into a bookshop to buy a book: not any book, but the latest Calvino, the book you are holding in your hands. Or is it? Are you the reader? Is this the book? Beware. All assumptions are dangerous on this most bewitching switch-back ride to the heart of storytelling.
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"Breathtakingly inventive" (David Mitchell)
"The greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century" (Guardian)
"Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it before.This is highly unnerving: fortunately you're usually too busy laughing to go mad... I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends" (Salman Rushdie)
"A devastating, wonderfully ingenious parody of all those dreary best-sellers you buy at the airport... It is a "world novel": take it with you next time you plan to travel in an armchair" (Lorna Sage Observer)
"A brilliant work of the imagination and the intellect working in union.And, by the way, it's very funny also" (Scotsman)
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"The greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century" (Guardian)
"Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it before.This is highly unnerving: fortunately you're usually too busy laughing to go mad... I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends" (Salman Rushdie)
"A devastating, wonderfully ingenious parody of all those dreary best-sellers you buy at the airport... It is a "world novel": take it with you next time you plan to travel in an armchair" (Lorna Sage Observer)
"A brilliant work of the imagination and the intellect working in union.And, by the way, it's very funny also" (Scotsman)
KEY NOTES: * Stunning new covers to increase backlist sales. * A legendary writer who, with this title, has treated us to one of the most enjoyable, playful, magical and influential European books of the century. * Praise for If non a winter's night: 'As captivaing and intelligent a conjuring act as you are likely to find in a years reading' - Observer
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- PublisherRandom House UK
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1784870617
- ISBN 13 9781784870614
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages258
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